I have created a short code called [contianer-narrow][/container-narrow] which wraps your content in a twitter bootstrap class: .container-narrow the issue is that the page title is not included. is there a way to say:

Are you wanting to switch the display of the title inside the shortcode or somehow make the shortcode control the display of the title elsewhere in the page template? It sounds like the latter.
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s_ha_dum♦Apr 29 '13 at 18:30

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As for your concrete question:
You could theoretically parse the retrieved content before shortcodes are resolved for this specific one, set a flag and wrap the title on condition of that.

But it would make much more sense to trash the shortcode-approach and simply create a new page template.
(Especially so, given that the parsing for the shortcode, or at least its consequences, would have to happen in the used template file anyway)

Copy the contents of your theme's page.php to a new file.
Call that page-narrow.php.
Prepend it by